Buggy and rack for handling tin



I. S. DAYTON.

BUGGY AND RACK FOR HANDLING TIN. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14, 1919.

'- 1 ,333 ,472. 1 Patented Mar. 9,1920.

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BUGGY AND RACK FOR HANDLING TIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14, 19,19.

1,333,472. Patnted Mar. 9,1920.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- l7 WITNESSES. IN l/EN TOR Q. cfizms Kipling/Z020 -J M I J BY m ATTORNEY UNITED JAMES sqimYron; 6F5 QfiMB'ERILANDJlYJlARYLASD.'

To (ZZZ whom it may comer n. y 5.

Be it known that I, JA ES-S. DAYTON, a citizen of the United States,- residinggatq Cumberland, in the county ofAllegany andv State of Maryland, have invented;fiiewf,.a-nd

useful .Improvements :in Bu-ggies and Racks for Handling Tin,of which the following .15 ,a specification.

The object of my inventionis'to provide a buggy, and rackfor the expeditious and;

economical handling of sheets, ofltin" in a;

a that: the rack is adaptedz-to:beatransported placed. on 1 the buggy;

tin'imill or analogous plant tlie said buggy and: its complementary rack being designed more particularly for 'use in conjunction withthe apparatus for handl ng tin sheets constituting the subject matter ofiny con- 'temporarr application, filed Janiiarv 118'...-

1919, Serial Number 271,867 as hereinafter explicitly setforth; 1 J The novelty, utility and PlfZlOtlCitl'ilClNillitages of the buggy andrack: willbe; fully understood 7 from the following" description and clai'mslwhen --read in connection.with

on the buggy and'to be lifted fromand: re-

In the drawingsz i c r g Figure 1: is a sideelevation showing the rackproperly positioned on'theibuggy' Fig. 2-isan endelevation of thes'ame Fig. 3 'isa plan: view of .the bug r' bo per. 8e. ,I j.

Figsl :is a plane indicated by the looking downwardly: 1 Fig. 5 is an enlarged; detail-showingfthe horizontal secfi fi.

1 .Qfi Figzj v mounting; ofone oftheupstandingzpins. 1p

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in; "all of thesv-iews of they drawings.

My novel buggy, generally designated-by";

I 1, is'preferably motor-drivem and' isxzdee:

' signed, to: be moved ona tracks 2 by' power derived from an overhead trolley -wire 3 7 connected withia.suitablesource of electrical energy; 7 The body 4 of theibuggy ispreferably in the form of a hollow casing mounted onwheels 5, and in'the top wall 6 of said body and adjacent to theends thereof are slots 7 which extend throughout the width of the Wall 6. At :their transverse centers the said slots 7 are in communlcation wlth comparatively short longitudinally disposed openings 8 which extend in opposite direc i G Ai nm HANDIJNG TIN; I a

i919. gserialiro. 282Q741;

tionsafroin eachrof slots 7 asshowin It will also be noticed by reference to Fig. 3 that'the. topwall of the buggy body is pro-' vided with apertures E "which are scattered throughout .;its area and are. designed to per- I Spjecificatieni of Letters lPatent. 315 9 1921 g Application filedMarch 1'4, v

-mitfwaterfto pass downwardly when the r rack lSI'GIilOVGd from the pickler or water "vatfand is superimposed "on thefbody 4:. At

rthisjpointf I would have-it, understood tl'i'at .at.itsimder-side the body 4 is -opensoyas' to permitthe water to drain tolthegroundw j pThe rack 9 of my improvement is' p lrefere :ably formed entirely of copperior brassjso as. to resist the action of the acids generally employed in-itinv inills. I Among" other oleinients thessaid rack-9 compr ses transverse lowermost portions 10 shaped in conformity to the slotsZ and offsets in the 1 top oi I j the'bodyz land adapted to seat in said slots :7 V flIlClLOfiSGtS 8 with-a'view'toprecludingfboth'" lendwise and sidewise displacement 0'1". the

-rack.x Superimposed upon' and fixed. with" respect gtol thdSaidlowermost; portions 10 Between these bars;11*- areother bars 12 i tapered' upwardly in cross-section'gas shown; I

rand saidbars 12 are provided atintervals 1 in their length with sockets 13 to receive the are-longitudinally disposed; spaced bars 11.

i reduced lower ends 14- ofupstanding pins 7 15 that. arepreferably-tapered to points at their upper-fonds as illustrated and designed to separatethe tin sheets, ind'ioatedby- 16' V into, bunchesn-Rising from;thejouterniost longitudinal bars '11 are nprights' 17 which fl Ol nl lillie corner-slot the" lifting frame of "the raolclj'lhe said uprightsi17-are con- 7 nected-or fixed adjacent to'their upper ends "to end bars 18 and side bar'slg; and itwil-l also .be' observed that the: said} ico-rner :up j;

rights l7,areconnectedthron'gh trusses-20 v with a loop or' eye 2l desi'gne'd 1 for theat; v etachment :ofa lifting} and "lowering apparatus,.not shownfi At 22zandadja=cent totihe ends of the innermostzzlongitudinal bars 11? and arranged. i'naverticallyl disposed. sockets.

18in said bars}:areiiprightro'ds; :"Fhese'mp' 1 righta -ro ds 22: and the-"corner uprights fl lf of 1J1 the lifting and lowering frame are provided 1 withenlargements ,23,- and on the said en.- largements-QS are longitudinal railsfl l and]; 25''which'rail's 'areapertured to receive the r i s and "are. designed} to hold. the. we longitudinal series of tin sheets against m 7 wise displacement? whilejpermitting a cer- Ltain amount of endwise play ofisaid'tin corner uprights 17 and the rods 22 tively,

sheets as is desirable in the handling and treatment thereof. The :GDClPOI-tiOnS oi the "longitudinal bars 11 are preferably'beveled, asindicated by 26 for theengagement off the dogs on the groups of tangs in the apparatus of my beforementioned oontemporary Cit "plants so as toeontrihute to economy in application; the said groups oi? taugs being designed to be inserted endwise between the longitudinal bars II to lift the bundles of tin sheets 16*clear-oi? the pins 15 and then withdraw thesaidbundlesfrom the rack in the direotion oi the length thereof;

. i In the practical use ofmyfnorelzbuggy and f rack, the racltcis charged with tin sheets at that point a mill where the-tin Lisopened.v The buggy with the :rael: thereon is thennioved to the scale zfor the weighing of the tin Y The buggy with theraek thereon is then-inoiiedion a storagetra'eh,rand;when

a vatiis opened for use, the 'rael; is lifted v fronrthe buggy and put in: the va't for the."

purpose of pickling the tin; At the proper time the rack is moved from the piokler: to'

theiwater vat, and; from the mitem the rack is removed and is then replaced onlthe buggy. At this" time the apparatus :eonstitilting the 'subj e'et of my before-mentioned Contemporary application is put into-use to i remove the bunches. of tin from the rack, and then the operation vdeserihedfso far as the* buggy :and rack: are concerned, is'rep'eated, d

-:It will be apparentrifrom the g foregoing that my novelibuggy :an'd raekareadaptedk to "materially facilitate the :handling of sheets. of tin in tin mills ,aiidwa nalogous operation. 1

- It will iurtheiheapparent at its as going that l my no rel eek-1S .eonstrueted wlth a View to expeditiously and thoroughly 3 draining the water that isshed by the tin" sheets as they come hem the waterI atpaud in this the raek is'assisted by the 'foraiiiinations in the top Wall 6 of thehuggy hody'i. Having desoribednnyinvention, what I' desire to "secure? by Letters-Patclaim and entqcally disposed sockets, upstanding pins removably arranged insaid sockets and carried bysaid longitudinal bars a lifting and lowering frame having corner uprights, upright rods 'socketed in the innermost longirtudinalhars; the said upright rods and cor ner uprights having supports at an interniiediate pointin their height, outer retaining rails mounted on the corner uprights and superimposed on the-supports thereof, and 'innerrretaining rails mounted on the said upright rods and superimposed on the sup ports thereof. g 1

'2. *A Wheeledbody having a fora-min'ous ttop wall and transverse slots in said top wall and alsozhaving offsets extending'longt tudinally irom said slots, and a rack comprising lowermost transverse portions w th offsets-adapted to seatin the slots and ,eif-

sets of the body, longitudinal spaced 'hai'sg arranged above and fixed with respect to" said lowermost portions and having vertically.d1sp0sed soekets, upstanding pins removably arranged 111 said sockets and earried by-said longitudinal bars, a lifting and loweringframe having oorner'uprights, upright rods socketed 1n the innermost longitudinal bars the said upright rods and cor-' ner uprights having supportsiat an intermediate point in their height, outer retaining rails mounted on theeorner uprights and superimposed on the'supports thereot, and" 1111181 retainlng rails mounted on thee I said uprightrods and" superimposed on the erossseetion,and the upstanding pins being tapered to points at their upper ends. g

3. Aghuggy hay ng av-wheeled body, and a '90; supports thereof; some of the: longitudinal bars of'the rack beingltapered upwardly in lifting and lower ng rack removably' ar ranged on the huggybody and having longitudinal port ons Land; means on said por tions for retaining tin agalnst horizontal ('lisplaeenient the said -lo ngitudinal portions being spaced apart: 7

v Ali. buggy havingawheeledbody; and a lifting 1 and lowering rack removably ari ranged on the buggy body and having longi-r tudinal portionsand means on said portions for retaining tin against horizontal dis placement; the said longitudinal portions 1 being spaced apart; and the ends of the said longitudinal spaced portions being beveled. In testlniony whereof I afiix my signature;

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